Lucy A. Snyder

Shaving tips for vampires

May 20, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

“I hate ’em when they ain’t shaved.”— Severen in Near Dark Shaving is very important to the sophisticated vampire. Nothing destroys the mood of seductive […]

Book Review: Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

May 18, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

The full title of this little book by Spencer Johnson is Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work […]

Writing query letters for fiction or poetry markets

May 17, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Writing a query letter for fiction or poetry is a bit different from writing a query letter for a nonfiction piece. Short Fiction and Poetry […]

How To Get A Goth Out Of A Tree

May 13, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Teddy was up on a low limb of the oak, clinging to the trunk and sobbing in terror. His thin body trembled in the cold […]

Movie Review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

May 12, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

My husband and I found Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to be a fun film. My mom would have gotten a kick out […]

Movie Review: Underworld

May 11, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

My husband and I rented the 2003 vampire/werewolf action flick Underworld this evening, hoping for a bit of fun, entertaining eye candy. And while this […]

Dealing with rejections from editors

May 10, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 1

In the inevitable event that you get a rejection letter from a publisher, you should, in the vast majority of cases, not take it personally. […]

Is the publisher just a middleman?

May 6, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

“The publisher is just the middleman!” I’ve heard many an aspiring writer make a statement to this effect. And, really, who can blame them? We […]

What can happen if you accidentally plagiarize

May 5, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Most of us first encounter the notion of plagiarism while we’re in school. Countless schoolkids unwittingly become plagiarists when they write their first few research […]

Secret (Literary) Agent Man

May 3, 2005 Lucy A. Snyder 0

The Traditional Path To Being Agented When you’re trying to sell your first novel, you’re stuck in a terrible Catch-22: many publishers won’t look at […]